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As Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess stood in the Oval Office and watched President Obama sign an education stimulus bill, she already knew she'd lost her teaching job back home to budget cuts and low seniority.
The $26 billion stimulus bill, designed to save 160,000 teacher and other government jobs across the nation, couldn't save her position at Pickett Elementary.
In fact, Ms. VanNess has been laid off twice from TPS this year.
TPS hasn't spent a dollar of the $7.6 million in teacher rehire money it received from the Aug. 10 bill, opting instead to save i
Originally posted by Raist
Stimulus money is for the most part only good for going into the pockets of many.
Sure a small portion of stimulus money has helped (there has been a large amount of much needed DOT labor going on this year), mostly though it makes a certain group richer.
I wonder what was really going through her mind as this was done knowing she would still be screwed in the end?
Raist
Originally posted by Raist
reply to post by HunkaHunka
I am all for spending tax money on useful things. If it is going into the pockets to make certain people rich that is not going to help those it is promising to help.
Do we really need bridges where one is not needed? Do we really need to make up jobs when we could just get to work filling jobs that are available and getting America back to where it once was?
Money being spent in a nonproductive way will do nothing.
Raist
Originally posted by neo96
if that teacher and other teachers truly wanted to save their jobs why didnt they all take a pay cut......or work part time....................oh i see they want full time pay when they only work part time hours...........the teachers are greedy their unions are greedy and they are above reproach and sacrifice..................
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Intelearthling
well man the teachers world is one that they made.........................the liberal mindset is the root cause of it all
back in the day when kids got into trouble there was the paddle......and detention etc...............todays world you cant touch them in anyway shape or form................for fear of lawsuits.................i still have no sympathy for them.
words alone cannot reach some people..........that is a fact.........
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Intelearthling
well man the teachers world is one that they made.........................the liberal mindset is the root cause of it all
back in the day when kids got into trouble there was the paddle......and detention etc...............todays world you cant touch them in anyway shape or form................for fear of lawsuits.................i still have no sympathy for them.